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Gaspard Monge
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French mathematician, inventor of descriptive geometry and father of differential geometry (1746-1818)
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Gaspard Monge was a person who lived from 1746 to 1818. He was born on May 9 or 10, 1746, and died on July 28, 1818. As an author, he is associated with a collection of works that includes titles such as *Géométrie descriptive*, *Application de l'analyse à la géometrie*, and *Description de l'art de fabriquer les canons*.
His written output includes the *Décret de la Convention nationale du 15 mars 1793, l'an second de la République franćoise*. Records indicate he has 61 works listed, with a separate count of 5 works noted in another source. His name appears in 368 other encyclopedia articles, and he is categorized under the Commons category "Gaspard Monge".
Synthesized by Vinony from 12 facts across 5 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1746
- Died
- 1818
- Works
- 61
Top works
- Géométrie descriptive
- Décret de la Convention nationale du 15 mars 1793, l'an second de la République franćoise [sic]
- Application de l'analyse à la géometrie
- Géometrie descriptive
- Description de l'art de fabriquer les canons
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The ERA‐Interim reanalysis: configuration and performance of the data assimilation system
· 2011 · cited 20,706x
- <i>Mercury CSD 2.0</i>– new features for the visualization and investigation of crystal structures
· 2008 · cited 8,402x
- Advanced Virgo: a second-generation interferometric gravitational wave detector
· 2014 · cited 3,676x
- A microRNA polycistron as a potential human oncogene
· 2005 · cited 2,915x
- Autoantibodies against type I IFNs in patients with life-threatening COVID-19
· 2020 · cited 2,281x
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Beaune
- Place of death
- Paris
- Occupation
- teacher
- Languages spoken
- French
- Notable work
- Monge's theorem
- Participant in
- French Revolution
- Noble title
- count
- Doctoral student
- Jean-Baptiste Biot
- Field of work
- differential geometry
- Image
- Musée Rude 003.JPG
- Work location
- Paris
Show 12 more facts
- described by source
- Azerbaijani Soviet Encyclopedia
- member of
- Academy of Sciences of Turin
- Commons category
- Gaspard Monge
- Commons gallery
- Gaspard Monge
- student
- Charles Julien Brianchon
- place of burial
- Père Lachaise Cemetery
- date of birth
- 1746-05-10
- date of death
- 1818-07-28
- writing language
- French
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- archives at
- École polytechnique
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
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Encyclopedic overview
Gaspard Monge, Comte de Péluse ( French: [ɡaspaʁ mɔ̃ʒ kɔ̃t də pelyz]; 9 May 1746 – 28 July 1818) was a French mathematician, commonly presented as the inventor of descriptive geometry, (the mathematical basis of) technical drawing, and the father of differential geometry.
He contributed alongside chemist Berthollet, chemist and physician Chaptal, and polymath Laplace to the establishment of Arts et Métiers ParisTech.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gaspard Monge” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.